Photography facilities

Located in the School of Art & Design's Bonington building, our Photography facilities give students access to both analogue and digital equipment, studio spaces, dark rooms, and editing suites.

    Photography facilities

    • black and white dark room.
      Dark room
    • Female student looking at negatives while working on a Mac computer.
      Students working in our digital dark room
    • Student working at Mac computer.
      Students working in our digital dark room
    • Male student jumping while being photographed in studio.
      Photography studio
    • Male student posing for photo while female studio holds camera.
      Photography studio

    Photography facilities and equipment include:

    • comprehensive Mac editing suites with software for photography and video;
    • a range of Canon and Nikon digital SLR cameras
    • Phase One digital backs for large and medium format
    • 35mm cameras including Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, and Leica
    • medium format cameras including Mamiya, Hasselblad, Yashica, and Rolleicord
    • large format cameras including MPP, Wista, and Toyo
    • HD video cameras and digital SLRs with HD video
    • Bowens and Profoto strobe flash equipment
    • black-and-white darkroom for wet and dry printing processes, with 39 enlargers – these include De Vere and Durst, with multigrade, colour head, and filter drawer head
    • colour suite dedicated to colour printing with ten individual darkrooms equipped with either a De Vere 203 or 504 enlarger with a colour printing head (dry process)
    • black-and-white print processing systems including Paterson dev system and deep tank processing
    • three dedicated full-size studios with backgrounds and Profoto lighting

    Photography facilities

    • Subject area: Art and design
    • Category: Teaching facilities
    • Location: City Campus

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